May, 2013

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How to Pinpoint Your Company’s Key Players

Insperity

Building a staff of well-recruited, well-trained employees is only the beginning of your company’s journey. Things change – constantly. And being able to deal with that change and emerge a better organization is the goal of any business. To do so, you need to know where your top performers are within your organization , what characteristics make them your leaders, and how to strategically position them alongside the rest of your people to get the most out of everybody.

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Improve Your Hiring Process: Bring Objectivity to Final Decision

ExactHire

We’ve covered a lot in this blog series — a variety of ways to make your hiring process more efficient. At the same time, I’m very fond of pointing out to our clients that this process still ultimately boils down to people hiring people. As obvious as that sounds, it’s easy to be misled by various solutions in the talent acquisition space that seem intent on turning hiring into another algorithm.

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The annual review is dead; long live continuous feedback

Achievers

In a recent article for Forbes , “ Time to Scrap Performance Appraisals? ,” Josh Bersin sounds the death knell of the annual review. He lists several good reasons why it’s time to say goodbye: the feedback is often too far removed from the behavior to be of use, it’s nearly impossible to remember a year’s worth of activity, course corrections should happen as soon as possible, etc.

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Dear Unemployed Job Seekers: A Thank You Would Be Nice

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . In the past few weeks, I''ve had occasion to email several people who are unemployed. Some had emailed me for advice or connections. Others had participated in live events with me and I''d followed up by emailing them some resources they''d requested. A few wanted me to review their resumes or cover letters. . In each case, I took the time to craft a helpful response, including links to relevant information.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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How leaders can leverage six social media dimensions for employee engagement

David Zinger

'Social Media Leadership for Engagement. Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton from McKinsey&Company wrote an insightful piece on the six social media skills every leader needs. The six dimensions and skills outlined by Deiser and Newton are: producer, distributor, recipient, adviser, architect, and analyst. I will briefly describe the skills and outline some ways that a leader can apply each skill to employee engagement.

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Everyone Is A Coach

NoExcusesHR

'I''m a big sports fan. Hockey is my favorite. It''s fast, and violent, and graceful, and full of finesse, and power, and endless hours of work away from the ice to get better. As in most sports, players, friends, families and fans are very engaged in every aspect of the game. They all think at one point or another that they are the coach. Not literally of course, but we''ve all seen or heard someone offer their perspective on how things should be done.

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How to Write a Job Description Optimized for Job Boards and Internet Search, Tip 5

ExactHire

Location, location, location! No, I’m not talking about prime land real estate; however, the same old catchphrase can apply to your job listings and job board real estate depending on how well your company’s geographic location aligns with the location of your targeted applicant pool. In this fifth installment of the “ How to Write a Job Description Optimized for Job Boards & Internet Search” series , I’ll discuss how strategically using features available within your applicant tracking syst

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[SlideShare] What will HR look like #in10years?

Achievers

We asked the HR community what their predictions were for HR #in10years and we are excited to share these insights with you in our newest SlideShare. Hear what China Gorman , Kevin W Grossman & Meghan M Biro of TalentCulture , Cali Ressler of CultureRx and many more have to say about what the role of the HR professional will be like in the future.

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Building Career Resilience: Networks vs. "Circles of Connection"

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . One of the issues that is clear to me when it comes to career resilience is that we need to build our connections to other people. Humans are social creatures, built for attachment and primed from birth to connect with others, and the more isolated and alone we feel, the more fragile and rigid we become. Caring for and being cared for by other people is critical to our emotional and mental well-being. .

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Waggle: 39 Ways to Improve Organizations, Work, and Employee Engagement

David Zinger

'My new free eBook Waggle is available today. You will enjoy this short book with so many images and insights. It looks great on an Ipad, tablet, or smartphone. This book based on spending 3 summers with honeybees, office objects, and computers offers you 39 ways to improve work based on 13 Waggles. I encourage you to read the book, put an action into practice, and act like a honeybee by passing the book on and pollinating these ideas with co-workers, friends and other organizations.

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Why the Best Leaders Open Doors

45 Things

'It''s amazing how life''s most important lessons sometimes seem to come from the most unexpected places. Read on for how Bill Treasurer learned a key leadership lesson from someone who isn''t even close to voting or getting his driver''s license his latest column I did for Gannett/USA Today. What makes a good boss? The question was posed on Twitter recently, and here are some of the responses: • "A good boss treats employees with respect, works as hard as everyone else, solves problems quickly

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Power Base

NoExcusesHR

'Once you accept a leadership position you immediately have power. You may feel the same as you did ten minutes prior to saying yes to that job offer, but in reality your world, and the world of the employees around you just changed. Power often has a negative connotation and that is unfortunate. Having the power to change things that are going poorly, or the power to make a difference in some one''s life are usually afterthoughts.

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Improve Your Hiring Process: Cast Wide Net for Talent by Going Social

ExactHire

Much of what I’ve addressed in my Improve Your Hiring Process blog series to this point has been about bringing efficiency and structure to your hiring process. Not to discount that by any means, as larger groups of unqualified applicants for open positions makes this more important than ever. But, ever think about why so many unqualified applicants end up in your pool?

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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5 must-reads for the in-the-know HR Professional: Week of May 23rd, 2013

Achievers

As graduations are commencing and the new workforce is emerging we all seem to have the Gen Y’s and Milliennials on the brain. The collection of articles for this week highlights some unique views in regards to the current Gen Y workforce and the impact the Millennial new grad will have within your organizations. So put on your alma mater colors and enjoy these grad-themed posts!

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Career Resilience Tool: The Career Journal

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Awhile back, I wrote about the value of having a career journal and discussed some of the ways that I used my own journal. I''m a huge proponent of reflective practice and a journal is a critical tool for that work. A lot of people think of journaling as a "nice to do," but as Harvard researcher Teresa Amabile has found, a career journal, especially for anyone who does creative work, is really more of a "must have.

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Employee Engagement Cartoonist John Junson is One in a Million

David Zinger

'David Zinger, Employee Engagement Speaker, on Cartoonist & Designer John Junson. This is cheating but I feel so right in doing it that I will go ahead and cheat. John Junson, the Employee Engagement Network weekly resident cartoonist, has just published cartoon number 360 on the network. He has completed a full circle of 360 cartoons. His work is exceptional and he now performs cartooning and design work for many other members of the network.

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How to Be More Productive if You're a Night Owl

45 Things

'Are you a morning person ? Or do you function best at night? For teenagers, science supports the idea that they’re not morning larks – they do better with later school start times and not being forced to function at 7 a.m. But as we grow older and have children of our own, we often experience a shift in our body clocks and begin to function better in the mornings.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Explosive Growth in the Corporate Training Market

Bersin with Deloitte

Earlier this year we launched the 2013 Corporate Learning Factbook, and the numbers are striking. US training organizations grew their spending by 12% in 2012 with similar growth rates expected in 2013. This is the highest growth rate in the last 8 years. Why the high growth? Companies realize that despite the high levels of unemployment in […].

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Skills Gap Highlights Need for Hiring Software in Manufacturing Industry

ExactHire

If you are in the manufacturing industry then you’ve likely had to make some critical changes to your applicant selection process over the past few years. As a whole, the industry has been surviving rather than thriving, with a skills gap caused by fewer new graduates in technical fields available to meet the needs of positions requiring technical skills.

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The 5-step plan to build your own employee referral program

Achievers

Employee referral programs consistently produce the best candidates in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. But if you’re like most companies, referrals comprise only 6.9 percent of applicants. What a waste! Fortunately, that’s not a fixed maximum; with a little effort, you can boost those numbers. According to Gerry Crispin, a principal at CareerXroads, “companies where recruiters place greater emphasis on referral-related hiring” are able to increase the percentage of referrals by 7-15%.

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Preparing for the Worst: What's Your Layoff Plan?

The Bamboo Project Blog

'What''s Your Layoff Plan? from Michele Martin on Vimeo. A big part of career resilience is being prepared for what work throws at you. The more prepared you are when something bad happens, the better you''ll feel. One work event more and more of us are having to deal with is a lay-off. Sometimes you''ll see the writing on the wall and can plan for a lay-off.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Now View This: 500 Videos on Employee Engagement

David Zinger

'500 Videos on Employee Engagement. We now have 500 videos relating to employee engagement posted at the Employee Engagement Network. This is a fantastic eclectic mix of videos on engagement, work, management, and leadership. These videos can inform, disrupt, inspire, engage, enthrall, and excite. There is something for everyone. I will create a concise list of the videos in the near future, for now ensure you join the employee engagement network and start watching by clicking here.

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How to Stop Procrastinating

45 Things

'Don''t hate me because I''m not a procrastinator. I was that obnoxious person in high school who started her term paper the day it was assigned. I tackle projects as soon as they cross my radar, and I go after my to-do list like a woman possessed. I have no idea why I am this way, but I have plenty of other flaws, so please don''t hate me. I know lots of procrastinators.

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To Understand Leadership, Study Followership

Bersin with Deloitte

I was at a conference with 50 or so chief learning officers last week and we had a number of discussions about leadership. Despite the fact that there are thousands of models, consultants, books, and assessments for leadership, this group hardly agreed on anything. We did agree that leadership development is a critically important challenge, […].

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What if Applicants Charged You for Their Time?

ExactHire

Recently I received an article forwarded from a friend that discussed applicants charging companies for their time during the interview process. Sounds a bit outlandish on the surface, doesn’t it? In summary, the article, “Ask The Headhunter: Should Employers Pay to Interview You?” (by Nick Corcodilos) is really about managing expectations. There are tons of questions that could be asked if this were a serious threat: What if you had to pay applicants for their time once they made it past

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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[White paper] Unleash Employee Success™: Use recognition to engage Gen X and Millennial employees

Achievers

Truly forward-thinking companies have made the turn from seeing generational changes as hurdles. Instead, they now see the demographic shifts as opportunities to unleash a new energy within the workforce. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Generations X and Millennials—the two youngest generations in the workforce—will constitute 64 percent of the workforce by 2020.

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Skill vs. Will

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . For the past several months, I''ve been meeting weekly with unemployed job seekers to help them find new jobs. I give them feedback on their resumes, do practice interviews with them and show them the best ways to find out about job leads, etc. I also coach them on setting and keeping weekly job search goals. . As we go through this process together and I observe what''s happening, what''s beginning to emerge for me is the need for people to get clear with themselves about why they aren''t t

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Enemy Within

NoExcusesHR

'“Did I do the right thing?” “Is the company going to get sued?” “Did we violate one of the many new regulations that seem to keep coming?” “Is my job now on the line?” Human Resources professionals face more challenges today than ever before. Any reasonable person would believe the laws that have been passed to protect all employees would certainly suffice.